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Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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Post by itvision »

brianpgordon wrote: post #222
itvision wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not a fanboy of any OS in existence but 1. Most tech-illiterate people are afraid of using regedit and/or GPO to disable Cortana so the point is valid. 2. Disk fragmentation has become an even bigger issue since Windows 10 doesn't defragment SSD disks. 3. It's not an argument. 4. The article talks about laptops specifically and the issue is still there and it's huge even for Windows 10 which often installs Micros…

5. I police my startup items so that's correct, I've never had this issue. But yeah I know about Autoruns; that's an option too. Are you saying that since it's not built into Windows then it shouldn't count? I don't really agree. It's not like other popular OSes have such tools built in either. And Autoruns is even first-party since Sysinternals was acquired by Microsoft. 6. Yes it can. My current Windows 10 system h…

5. It's not about policing - it's about knowing what's being launched on startup and at least being able to disable items one by one to understand the root cause of your slow boots (and even that doesn't always help since some slow downs are caused by bad/misbehaving drivers). The startup tab in the task manager is absolutely insufficient as it shows pretty much nothing.

6. Random scripts from the Net to "improve" Windows 10? What could possibly go wrong? ;-)

And you're kinda neglecting the elephant in the room: you cannot uninstall apps in Windows 10 at all without using Power Shell. For some reasons Microsoft decided not to include the apps anywhere in GUI, e.g. in Windows Components which if I remember correctly were/was created exactly for this purpose.

In short the apps and how cryptically they are handled is one of the worst "features" of Windows 10. And don't get me on how they are handled in file system: it's a huge effing mess. And how you cannot really access/edit/remove apps data even when you're an administrator.

In short, UWP is an alien technology to Windows 10. UWP should have been a new different OS altogether (and probably that was the plan).

Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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Post by itvision »

alphachloride wrote: post #137

Windows 10 is can be infuriating. But I can't find any other OS that is a good alternative. It's the worst OS, except for all the other OSes out there. 1. Best in gaming. 2. Engineering applications (CAD/Matlab/LabView) are usually windows-first 3. Good software development ecosystem. Now with Windows Subsystem for Linux, the need for having another OS is diminishing. 4. User interface is great. A lot of customizatio…

4. Sadly nowadays it's one of the worst UIs. It was great starting with Windows 95 and ending with 7. It all went downhill starting with Windows 8. Windows 10 isn't much better.

Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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Post by suby »

walshemj wrote: post #161
suby wrote: post #69

It's worth a mention just how buggy win10 has been for me. I don't spend much time working in windows, but every time I do I encounter one issue or another. File explorer freezes / crashes. There is that one empty folder on my desktop that I cannot delete because it is in use, but there is nothing in the folder and no program is conceivably using it. There are occasional glitches with git. It wouldn't let me clone a…

I wonder exactly what you have done to windows to cause those problems - all these problems people mention here I haven't see any real problems. Where you using the windows git client that plus atom with the right plugins is great The only annoying one is the way Dell messed up its recent sound drivers - sound is one are which Microsoft needs good hard kick up the ass.

I wonder exactly what you have done to windows to cause those sound driver problems. I haven't seen any real problems with sound.

Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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Post by itvision »

thrower123 wrote: post #170

Most of these issues are solved if you can manage to get your hands on a copy of the LTSB (or whatever they are calling it these days, I believe the name has changed slightly) version of Windows 10. I would actually pay good money for this distribution, but it's only available through MSDN subscriptions or enterprise licensing. It's a rock-solid, stable, garbage-free version of Windows. You don't get any half-borked…

Sadly not legally available for SOHO users in any shape or form.

Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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Post by itvision »

Dirlewanger wrote: post #39

Anyone have experience with the LTSC?

I love it.

It's a stripped down to the bare bones Windows 10 which doesn't include UWP apps (except the core ones, like the start menu and PC settings) and which allows to disable pretty much all the telemetry.

Also, it's rock solid, doesn't get reinstalled every 12 months and is supported for 10+ years.

In short, it's what Windows 10 should have been.

Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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Post by theArdvart45 »

Buge wrote: post #186
brianpgordon wrote: post #84

I'm no Windows fanboy but there's a lot of misinformation here. In the spirit of bullying the reader with a big list of points, here are some examples of incorrect claims in TFA: 1. It's not hard to disable Cortana and internet-assisted start menu search completion. I assume that's what they mean by "keyboard scanning and voice recording" because I don't think there's anything else like that in the OS. It is possible…

1. Forcing people to use registry edit hacks is not an acceptable UI. There's no guarantee that those registry hacks won't stop working tomorrow. There needs to a real documented way to do it. I have Windows 10 Pro. I used to disable Windows search doing web search with the Policy Editor (forcing me to do that was already boarderline unacceptable). Now that has stopped working, and even though I enable/disable many t…

I found more Search GPO settings in the User Configuration to finally disable the web search. No more "Control Panel" Bing web searches for me!

Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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Post by suby »

mehrdadn wrote: post #210
suby wrote: post #205

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think I have any shell extensions installed. I did allow git, 7zip, and clion to add themselves to the right click context menu, but I don't think that counts as a shell extension? I do have WSL installed, but only for curiosities sake. I messed around with it for a few hours and have not used it since. I'm using git with the terminal editor that they recommend to you in the git for Windows installation, I th…

> I did allow git, 7zip, and clion to add themselves to the right click context menu, but I don't think that counts as a shell extension? They do count, but whether or not they're relevant depends on whether they're triggered. e.g. if you never right-clicked, then 7-zip probably doesn't count. Although 7-zip also installs drag-drop handlers, so it's not just right-clicking, and I'm not sure when the others get trigge…

> Hm, somehow I feel neither of them is related. How likely is it that the name wasn't unique after your rename? Did you type in gibberish or something that could plausibly exist?

I only have my memory to go by so this could be faulty, but if I remember correctly I was trying to copy a public repository into an empty folder. I simply called git clone url. When that failed, considering the error message I got, I then entered in the clone command with a random string of characters for the destination name, again in the same empty folder. When that failed, I closed the terminal, opened a new one on my desktop, and that failed, too. Restarting fixed it.

I encounter a lot of weird issues with Windows. I'm not sure if it's my hardware combination, or what. The hardware itself contains my Linux install, which never gives me an issue, so I doubt it's faulty hardware. At one point I assumed I had installed from a corrupted ISO or something, so I downloaded a new ISO and reinstalled. Problems persisted.

It's entirely possible that some program that I typically install causes issues, but I can't imagine what program that would be. Practically the only thing on my Windows partition is visual studio (c++ and c# tooling), clion, 7zip, WSL (could be this, I suppose), an installation of ruby, and Sublime Text. I know at one point Microsoft was saying that CCleaner was causing problems, but I'm not using anything like that.

Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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Post by zzo38computer »

ravenstine wrote: post #38
ogre_codes wrote: post #11

Apple hasn't done a great job of supporting MacOS over the past few years. Catalina in particular has been a bit rocky, but every time I look seriously at Windows as an alternative it falls short. It's quite sad to me that my choice of OS has essentially boiled down to "Sucks less, costs more". It's been a few years for me, but maybe time to start seriously looking at Linux on the desktop again.

I don't see how Apple hasn't done the best job in terms of operating systems. macOS hasn't changed significantly in the last decade; it's essentially the same interface, but less skeumorphism. The only bug I've experienced that's close to being serious is the touchbar freezing(seriously wtf). Windows, on the other hand, has changed significantly. Sure, it runs 32-bit programs, but the interface difference between 7 a…

In the case of Linux, you can at least change the window managers and desktop environments. That is what I did; I installed i3-wm and removed the desktop environment entirely.

Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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Post by suby »

wvenable wrote: post #149
suby wrote: post #69

It's worth a mention just how buggy win10 has been for me. I don't spend much time working in windows, but every time I do I encounter one issue or another. File explorer freezes / crashes. There is that one empty folder on my desktop that I cannot delete because it is in use, but there is nothing in the folder and no program is conceivably using it. There are occasional glitches with git. It wouldn't let me clone a…

> It's worth a mention just how buggy win10 has been for me. Is it though? I mean I've had none of these problems. You could literally have a bad RAM stick or a misbehaving piece of hardware. For every one of these posts, are hundreds of thousands of people will no problems at all and therefore no reason to make a post.

It could be bad hardware, you are right. I doubt the issue is faulty hardware since the same parts work in Linux, but the ultimate point that it could be something else entirely and not Microsoft's fault is of course true.

This is a forum though. We're here to talk and share our experiences and anecdotes. We don't have access to any real statistical data regarding the amount of bugs and issues that people experience with Windows. What we can do is collectively share what we have experienced because we enjoy talking about it, or we want to try and see if things are getting better or worse on average. I think you can get a reasonable view of how buggy / how many issues people are experiencing for a given product by the ratio positive posts / negative posts.

I never had problems with Windows in the past. I now have a lot of problems with Windows. Take that however you will.

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